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Baroque timeline

  • Period: 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. Sometimes known as the Bard of Avon, he is considered the most important writer in the English language and one of the most celebrated in world literature.
  • St Peter's basilica is complete

    St Peter's basilica is complete
    It is the largest interior space of a Christian church in the world.
  • Period: to

    Francesco Cavalli

    Pier Francesco Cavalli (14 February 1602 in Crema - 14 January 1676 in Venice) was an Italian composer, organist and singer. He was, along with Monteverdi, the most important opera composer of the 17th century.
  • Monteverdi makes opera history

    Monteverdi makes opera history
    He released L'Orfeo.
  • Rubens pioneers baroque in Rome

    Rubens pioneers baroque in Rome
  • First proscenium theatre

    First proscenium theatre
    A proscenium in the modern sense was first installed in a permanent theatre in 1618–19 at the Farnese Theatre built in Parma, Italy.
  • Period: to

    Johann Christoph Bach

    Johann Christoph Bach was a German organist and composer, the most important and respected musician of the Bach family before Johann Sebastian Bach. The eldest son of Heinrich Bach, he was born in Arnstadt, where he was an organist.
  • Period: to

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, better known as Leonardo da Vinci, was a Florentine polymath of the Italian Renaissance. He was also a painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, botanist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet and urban planner.